I don’t particularly care to debate world war II politics,

Yet here you are. Funny way of not particularly caring.

but I think there is enough data there to have a discussion, rather than questioning somebody’s character for even bringing it up.

Oh, cool, as long as it’s Just Asking Questions™ it’s okay. Next up, we’ll do “Was Hitler REALLY a BAD guy?” and “Did the Holocaust REALLY kill millions of people?”

Banning somebody from an instance for referring to historical events, seems questionable for a cornerstone Lemmy instance to do.

“Referring to historical events”

By calling the Soviet invasion of Poland ‘bloodless’ and accusing the Poles of being the REAL Nazis, who the Soviets had to invade to defeat fascism?

Yeah, that’s not ‘referring to historical events’, that’s ‘referring to pure fucking fantasy and passing it off as historical fact’.

It’s curious how many times I run into defenders of people like this who insist that they have no skin in the game but still bend over backwards to accommodate the most horrendous views. I must just not be enlightened enough to understand.